if it is a matter to. count is there. i'm convinced the top stories on al-jazeera the un says the syrian government and russian forces are deliberately targeting civilians and hospitals and northwestern syria human rights she is calling for a safe passage to help civilians escape fighting 900000 people have been forced from their homes since december the shift quantity of attacks on these hospitals medical facilities schools. which suggests to me they can't all be accident. and at a minimum even if they were accidental it shows the lack of course you know tina says city caution and so on. all of which can contribute to something going on

a trip to shift gears of war crime. internationally sorry intentionally directing attacks against hospitals and places containing the sick and the wounded and against medical units using the red cross or red crescent emblem. is a war crime the number of people killed by the corona virus has now passed 1800 after china reported 98 more deaths the head of a major hospital and one han that's at the center of the outbreak has also died of the virus has sarah cox from hong kong with the latest updates on the situation on the mainland. today in a bid to try and curb this ongoing outbreak across china the government is in a tough new measures with the focus being on we've had of course this is the epicenter of the corona virus outbreak they're doing door to door knocking on every single house and what they're describing as the city wide sweep trying to identify those people are showing any signs of symptoms that are associated with the corona

virus now those people who refuse to be tested they face heavy penalties as a result now this is part of a citywide lockdown in who by all cross the who by province this is a that will have alone as 11000000 people now the case numbers may be fulling across china but by province is still quite serious we have at least 50000 cases of infections japan is reporting 88 more corona virus infections on board a quarantined cruise ship in york harbor that brings the number of infected people on the vessel to 540 the government also announced it would begin testing h.i.v. medication on patients with the new coronavirus south korea's government has sent a presidential jet to remove some of its citizens from that ship 14 have been on the diamond princess for nearly 2 weeks the impact of the corona virus outbreak has prompted south korea to declare an economic emergency of the major disruptions to its production and shipping industries. ukrainian soldier has been killed and

several others wounded in the eastern donbass region it's the largest attack since the peace process was renewed last year ukraine says russian backed separatists are responsible separatists deny the claim saying the soldier was killed when he stepped on a mine the kremlin says it isn't to blame as russia doesn't have a presence in ukraine as soon as the 1st lady has appeared in court in connection with the murder of her husband's previous wife aside the bonnie is charged with ordering the killing of lipo lead author bonnie and 2017 she's been granted bail but was in court for a pretrial hearing. there's been heavy fighting between saudi troops and tribal forces in eastern yemen saudi soldiers attempted to storm the town of shan province near the omani border but would push back the boy scouts of america one of the largest youth organizations in the u.s. has filed for bankruptcy the group says it's to ensure compensation for sexual

abuse victims last year it was revealed that more than $12000.00 children were reportedly abused while taking possum boy scouts activities. more than 200 flood warnings remain in place across the u.k. after some areas recorded the highest force levels in 40 years 2 storms have bashed in britain in the past week bringing heavy rain and strong winds at least 4 people have died fighting in the u.s. state of mississippi has forced hundreds of people from their homes in the state capital jackson weeks of heavy rain pushed the river to its highest level in 37 years well those are your headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after in search of india's sol so stay with us.

my name is artist taseer i'm a writer and a columnist. in this the 2nd of 2 films i'm traveling through india the country i grew up in. i want to see for myself the changes taking place amid a rising tide of him look for the hindu 1st politics these ideas which place hindus

above people of other faiths stem from the very top leadership in this land of 1300000000 people. i started my journey in the holy city of our and i see in northern india. this is a deeply religious country in the middle of a battle for her soul and it is no surprise that it was this place at the hindu nationalist leader in the ranger mode he chose this election battleground republic sing its powerful symbolism in a new time. behind this image of a religiously diverse nation india faces a new mini crisis. and minorities including $200000000.00 muslims fear an underlying current of violence more brutality and death at the hands of hindu diamonds the hardliners claim injustice is against him dues for muslim rule

and sentries past justifies their drive to return india to a golden age as they see it and a nation where hindus come 1st hindu is making up to get back the birthplaces of his ancestors and these films i've been asking whether these ideas come from. following independence in 1947 which was closely intertwined with the bloody episode of partition some people had thought that the politics of division was finally a thing of the past in the newly created secular state of india all would be equal before the law but here the word secular would come to have a particularly indian meaning. secular in india merely meant a the existence of a profusion of religions all of which were allowed and encouraged by the state to flourish. but over the past few decades

a series of events occurred that threaten the very fabric of india's secular identity it set that then tiny b.g.p. political party on course to become the ruling power they are today on the 6th of december 1902 a crowd of 150000 militants supporters of the pro hindu r.s.s. descended on the barbary mosque in the northern town of the reputed birthplace of the hindu god rom i was standing next to the mosque when this crowd started increasing the gate broke down and the huge rush of people inside beyond the control of the way that shutdown was a young journalist and a key witness to the events that were to unfold. what they started doing was breaking the barricade that was thematic getting all around and the fury that could be even that was visible they walked in within. half an hour you saw

dozens of people at the mosque. with its pro hindu agenda the r.s.s. had long been agitating to destroy the 16th century mosque built by the mogul ruler barber and reclaimed the sacred ground for him booze for them the existence of the mosque was a long standing move when you saw this thing come down what did you see what i thought about the the social and political back i said well they have now this is a divide that they've created in the country they are taking us back to 147 when india was divided. in the riots that followed between muslims and hindus some 2000 people were killed for indian muslims these events meant much more than just the loss of a defunct building. businesses and i. dentity it was not the mosque was not so it was not the mosque that was important for the of that identity so do you feel that that the new politics had been born absolutely feel like a new politics of division of division began.

this was a division that would change the face of indian politics one that pushed many among the 80 percent hindu majority to support the b j p at that time a relatively obscure political party. truly astonishing to hear sherrod story because it makes so clear how the stage was set for this political drama to play out in which a defunct mosque became the vessel of religious passions. this hindu reawakening was underlined by a long running t.v. adaptation of the hindu epic the ra milan for years record numbers of indians were grouped by the series that chronicled the life of lord rum and tapped into a deep sense of pride and nostalgia among them. it's really amazing for me to see because i grew up on the t.v.

serial it's the ra milan and it was played to india in the eighty's to great passion and large audiences and knowing it has a kind of an edge to it because we have large audiences again we're in a stone quarry where the stones are being prepared for a future ram temple where the mosque had been demolished. for 28 years lawyers forto over the rights and wrongs of building a temple to lord ram on the site of the barbary mosque in the meantime the stones for the new temple were caught with the confidence that the situation in favor of building the long awaited temple would surely come. all those words are political tell way of i don't know well let's talk about our thoughts our mighty monday at the door mom. american much more the monarchy at our place or value only because if we didn't in the navy to get political. we think at the levels that.

is news making a hindu is making up to get back down birthplaces of his ancestors. get me into can go and make use temples in jerusalem no can i go room and build ram temple or hindu temple there no can i go to maka and build a temple there no i will not be allowed. why we are considered different when the case of your dad comes. it is the but face of arda. what we're seeing is the construction of partitions in hearts and minds of millions of people across the country i think hurtling in a direction which is potentially catastrophic.

same to the idea of india that the leadership of the represented was that india would be a country where people don't matter which god you worship or if you were shipped. like beach you would be if you be an equal citizen that was elected the same true cornerstone of all 40 stood for many of us believe that the show was all for ever but it was not the beauty of it have succeeded in uniting. all communities into believing that there's a common enemy which is the muslim world the also has the backing of the largest civil society organization in the world. which is which is the which is deeply committed to the ideology of indiscipline this is. the campaign to get back the

sides of the barbary mosque for the hindus had been running for years. but the act that made it possible came from a completely unexpected event one that played into a negative narrative about muslims and secularism promoted by the r.s.s. . in 96 and otherwise obscure family dispute involving a muslim couple that became known as the shah bano case reached the supreme court in delhi. the has been claimed he divorced his wife islamic lee by saying they were to lock on 3 occasions. are if muhammad khan was a cabinet minister at the time clock just repeat it thrice and it's all over and now we have cause for the court advocate divorce and you had not divorce had on the day you had devoted to. undermine to secular law the court refused to recognize the triple telarc islamic divorce he was ordered to pay his wife maintenance congress

party pm and member of the narrow gandhi did misty rajiv gandhi initially supported the judgment his 1st instinct was the right one which was to back the supreme court decision that granted this poor old lady alimony and to encourage his cabinet minutes out of moment come you spoken to to sister in parliament and to say so with some courage and lehmann's. the personal low board which represented muslims claim the award was against islamic law angry clerics demonstrated outside parliament. the stand of the parcel of board was that these judgement is against islam this is interference in the slum called therefore it must be rajiv gandhi buckled under the protest of conservative clerics he went back on his decision and passed a bill that reversed the supreme court ruling the case would now be judged under

muslim personal law in titling the wife just 3 months maintenance seeing this is an assault on women's rights progressive muslims and many hindus were appalled company came under attack from both sides. rajiv gandhi did the worst mistake of his life by extending to these conservative elements and overturning the supreme court judgement and taking away her date to maintenance indian politics took a turn from that family davies and was dead the language which was the spoke threatening language our excite parliament in the meeting of the parts of a low board open call was given to brag but the lead's of all those m.p.'s who defied reports and if it is which was. a keen and again definitively. supreme court which at that will smash the supreme court may just pieces.

there was a discourse about appeasement to muslims the idea that people have done too much for muslims. many hindus were angered at what they saw as the state caving in to muslim demands. for years the pro hindu r.s.s. had agitated to access to the barbary mosque in new york here. to placate them rajiv gandhi ordered the site to be open for him to prat. a decision that has had deadly consequences ever since. on february 27th 2002 a train was set alight just outside go dressed asian in the western state of gujarat. 58 hindu pilgrims were burnt to death they'd been returning home from the barbary mosque in new york here.

there was an outcry and mobs of hindu hardliners took to the streets. danica start up again as hard as get their window but we haven't heard our good idea her or him door go clear. pull her to her instead of handing the dead to their families the bodies were transported nearly 200 kilometers to the town of under about to be paraded through the streets you can tell yourself talon local act on local be just because a lot out there are just for gases and nature in the asylum i don't get a lot out what role then. got done many how the mind of it is going up or to meet italy any suggest that he got his days conditioned and why. the reading $58.00 charged corpses through the streets was always likely to provoke

further violence. but permission for the reportedly came from the then chief minister of. the rain through modi himself. in the ensuing riots over a 1000 were killed 3 quarters of them muslims. in danger 92 when the mosque was the morning india changed for they were. the issue of the charbonneau. be emotive and important. the riots in. the sequence of events. that charted the path and lead the foundation for the ease of hindu supreme assist politics and late to the emergence of this leader in the mood. for long hours the good dr state authorities stood by as rioting took place prompting allegations of state complicity. saying forget i was

a young police constable his unit was kept in active as people were massacred. in the run up by p.m.s. . police or they can also has a thing public that cigar was your body of. one point hard tanita well generally that or a matter of degree but that because you get out there that. i. don't know. but.

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not. even. sure he she was at home with her husband and 3 small true. he couldn't finish the mission the said by heart of the modernity but the town itself ok what he said. about china getting about 70 finding too late getting to tell all the what they were. bustling 10 minute show with a barely but it's clear. they want us how many times. advice would be needed and now sneak out again maybe go away.

for legit complicity in allowing the mob violence and killings to go unchecked during their body was barred from visiting the us a ban that lasted for 10 years. india's top court has ruled that a disputed religious site be given to hindus for the construction of a temple hindu hard liners destroyed a 16th century mosque in 1992 sparking riots that killed at least 2000 people. i find myself wondering how far do these events i've loved about on this journey represents an attempt at a historical record are we witnessing a recommitting of the secular character of most men do that set of rules on which

the newly founded country was established. can. invent in there without taking into account tragedies of more than those how much we've tried to sanitize i don't think the people in the muslims of today should be blamed for what i have to do if i received their list particularly trying. to see that it didn't happen gets people's backs it's not evil securitisation it's the reaction. this secularization all by pretending that it was all a happy family all along it was and it was a very troubled history. in the muslim world to accept that yes we are muslims and we shall remain muslim but our ancestors of the same as yours i would say 99 percent of the problems with the muslims of meal because of the way they are portrayed is the descendants of the

murders of the looters and butchers and rapists the making common cause with people who broke the long temple the krishna temple the kashi we shall not temple 40000 other temples but it's true that they are converted. i think was a full force here for 2 months a backlash you might call it and the need for a strong leader combined with the need to assert what they thought was the hindu identity and by implication the best latent. people are coming back to the word the people are thinking to come back to be a who they are feeling that. right the connect with their roots and their groups does not lie in. identity is

connected with. whether i have converted to islam my true identity was before the islam we are not proud of identify oneself with baba they were they made us. the hindu for our view of the past might sound great if you happen to be a hindu but where does this leave the non hindus naseer room became acutely aware of the challenges facing her muslim daughter growing up in increasingly pro hindu surroundings she's written a book about saad says i kept waiting for my teacher to react in school the class me. i was silent i didn't respond and i just kept sitting there i didn't really know what to do. what is it like now to grow up as a muslim child in india take you through one story in your book the boys called

house and they they come and call him to go to this birthday party and then a few minutes later he comes back home the boy refused to let him maintain his house and said that he cannot share the cake with you you cannot eat together. my parents don't want you at my house and the mother said i did. was your experience growing up in india what when you say look at yourself in context of these stories what was it like for you i grew up in a different india i think it was also because of the larger narrative i doubt if we can even see the same country and. you know all we had that one national television channel to the ocean which would have this little girl who would sing. how there are so many different kinds of birds but and we had all those different kinds of birds but we're all birds of

a flock together. you know the beauty of being that you are one or you know people of different identities can write a little thing that one song together in different languages also but they're singing that one song together that you really are one bottom. one of the things you can do to protect her from this environment i don't do about india the map and show our neighbors our you know your china put down here you have . bungled the issue you have pakistan and sri lanka so i think that all the neighbors and then i say what if somebody called you chinese you laugh and say right i'm an indian i'm going to chinese what if somebody calls you a bangladeshi you laugh and say they didn't know the fact that they wanted somebody called supermarket bunny you'll laugh and say another funny thing i know meted out

to him and you could ruin any of the so because of course the assumption being that that that's a way that prejudice would play out there to say you're a pakistani or go to pakistan because that is what is happening on an everyday basis we need leaders to make sure that no one. grows up with hatred nor child grows up with fear this is not about muslim kids this is about every child out there because i'm sure as a parent you'll be very if if a child to be grows up. challenge lies in so much of teaching. the race for the white house has become this not just for states have their say on tuesday wants to please don't try. to have to continue coverage of the fasting to 2025 u.s.

. actually. i'm convinced the top stories on al-jazeera the un says the syrian government and russian forces are deliberately targeting civilians and hospitals the northwest syria human rights chief is calling for a safe passage to help civilians escape fighting 900000 people have been forced from their homes since december the sheer quantity of attacks on these hospitals medical facilities schools. which suggests to me they can't all be accident. and at a minimum even if they were accidental it shows lack of course now tina says city caution and so on. all of which can contribute to something going to fish if

there's a war crime. internationally sorry intentionally directing attacks against hospitals and places containing the sick and the wounded and against medical units using the red cross or red crescent emblem. is a war crime the number of people killed by the corona virus has not passed 1800 to china reported 98 more deaths the head of a major hospital in the center of the outbreak has also died of the virus. japan is reporting 88 more corona virus infections on board a quarantined cruise ship in york a hummer that brings the number of infected people on the vessel to 540 the government also announced it will begin testing h.i.v. medication on patients with the new grown a virus. ukrainian soldier has been killed and several others wounded in the eastern don't boss region it's the largest attack since the peace protect process

was renewed last year ukraine says a russian backed separatists are responsible something that the night they soto's 1st lady has appeared in court in connection with the murder of her husband's previous wife messiah to bonnie is charged with ordering the killing of lip or little to bonnie and 2017 she's been granted bail but wasn't called for a pretrial hearing the boy scouts of america one of the largest youth organizations in the u.s. has filed for bankruptcy the group says it's to ensure compensation for sexual abuse victims it was revealed that more than $12000.00 children were reportedly abused all taking part in boy scout activities the news continues here in algiers there are in search of india's soul stay with us.

the hindu fear has been the problems. it is the only major in the world which actually legitimized inequality in cars to. be among the lower castes dull it's also known as untouchables sit at the very bottom of the hindu hierarchy. they perform the lowliest tasks such as manually cleaning sewers often with no protective clothing or breathing apparatus. with a reporter the 11 deaths per month this ranks among the world's most dangerous what . people say right or is a valid i'm a lawyer he's taking us to meet some members of the community some of whom he represents. underpaying is

a lot his own course but still it when the big one come back again it's the enemy. or stuff like i think and stuff i think i think will mean a lot over those that all the lottery caliber galas family are cleaners her husband was poisoned in a sewer 4 years ago 2 of her 3 sons now do the same work let's face it stream prejudice every day of their lives who are innocent by living in one of the it all went down and at the end of the tank up by new glass house which are not any other level other than. yes i do when you. consider what i and my junkie by george said. despite protections under the constitution dullards. untouchables are treated as outcasts how to make their neighbor who wore a tie. they can afford or not what he would. many delegates and other low

cost him those have escaped their predicament by converting to other faiths such as islam or christianity the b.g.p. control state about to predation has prepared an anti conversion law under which religious conversion would require permission from a state official human rights groups say the law is aimed at keeping delegates in their place but we've discovered a twist to this theme. one away to a village where an r.s.s. worker has converted a bunch of indian muslims back to him who is a by a process called curve upson which literally means homecoming. truelove a man's father was a hindu who converted to islam. a generation on he and several family members have converted back to hinduism one is the.

key not love the family only the mcnalley are my line of the single not the how will you go from what i think. the small print in india's anti conversion laws forbids enticements or intimidation to convert. it's a certificate that love mohamad is no name she loves money he's being brought into the hindu forward. and it says without any pressure. without any influence. but i. forgot that. he got on a bus. to . get out and got to be. moved when the going to.

get out. not the. urge. to islamic. was. about it but.

my fear because as i got unable. to go to mosque on the. jovian i come from 2 kalash chandra the local lara says leader who performed last conversion ceremony abi how to get there her head or anyone i've seen do you care or think you can muslim who miss it when they bought nothingness was 42 years ago if some i think of our muscles were not out there and you know that you know who's in lucky you know peace and the only one nigger all ok are muslim man who have done the who are. the world about hanna and the present a little jealous of the new young. girl we never get out what used to. be busy a decade you see never if we. cannot go up an economic war or top in the

u.k. to take is rooted in that art market bottom about get it here and it must was knee high sad me which is nice when muscles gotta be seeking muscles got on its muscles and i will get sick as a muslim and what you get in the not so bad i think it will do it in good now most people get it you muslims and you blew up nice and got their family gives out a car got it in a given me your money buy that as they come and do not doubt there are going to argue about that in the in the one that jumped up in. one of the other groups you could i do yes. about a year to india. some pelly. take you. that have. operated under don't legally what will. you do the. only chain yank

some magic cheese on these things come to the. well that was such a heated discussion and one of the things that made it so tense was that the r.s.s. man was really worried about coercion and especially in relation to the evangelical faiths and yet when we spoke to the guy who he had converted to hinduism one could not help but feel that they'd been a considerable amount of social pressure on him and that that had been a kind of caution. would have the truth behind. or homecoming to the hindu for it's from within the lower costs that most conversions out of hinduism in recent years have taken place. eat eat plants but along with islam it's another ancient religious group that

faces the consequences of rising hindutva politics there are $28000000.00 christians in india a 2000 year old community stretching back to the earliest days of the faith but still seen by the most hardline hindus as an outsider religion that took hindus away from the original faith. in 2008 in the state of arizona in eastern india several 1000 christians came under attack. $400.00 religious or die or posed of all christians $60000.00 christians fled to the forest to save themselves . $6000.00 plus houses more than $300.00 critical to restore the ground schools colleges all spittles clinics everything clicked on it and pretty people killed nuns a rape. case is still going on 10 years later. and

we expect a fair justice depending on the facts. not depending on who is the majority. the radicalization of the structures of state the police their ministries the junior magistracies the teachers the village self government mechanisms. all of them actually believe this is the land of the hindus and everybody else if they want to live via must live here as 2nd rate citizens nobody can feel safe. unless there's an assurance that the muslim isee. the isolation of minorities risks becoming institutionalized in schools would so-called suffer nies ation the favoring of hindu ism over other traditions and school textbooks. where

to stay single drop with 10th grade students have been studying a new hindu focused curriculum. it writes out much of the country's non hindu past. and armies lead an attempt on mattresses and they are only just now going to fight and he then is a man a man says i'll tell him that i wouldn't like to lie and we had a plan i never did that but the time. is a word when i miss a person out of me fairly good to do will get up memories from it was a common early in. their lives. they let their suddenly teeter b.p.c. on the linear thinking part of this. has got to care about of this one equals here . ben if a. couple o. took up. but i think that i'm good and i may yeah but every day on my way you go. to give order to 50 looking look at the galaxy comes to me now how.

did it want to make you go back to life about to be. mobile has to be man happy camper man tells him. what today's 10th graders may not get to learn about is the wealth of learning and cultural blending that accompanied muslim rule in india modeled in the study or may have been harsh and puritanical but other moguls brought a culture of openness and learning the targum hell is the supreme expression of this. it was built by the mogul ruler sharjah ha as a muslim for his beloved wife 1000 how he preached equality among hindus and muslims and he celebrated hindu festivals

a tradition established by his grandfather awkward under him india enjoyed a religiously and culturally diverse existence schools for both muslims and hindus were established policies that own the loyalty and respect of hindus a blending of culture and religion in my so-called syncretism and an essential part of indian life today i mean for people sikri built by uk for which he made his capital success came through acknowledging the multiple cultures within india. here's thing quite isn't isn't trying the architecture the column the divan a house in the hole welker would hold court assimilates motifs from hindu islam christianity buddhism islam and zorro astronauts. so the pillar itself kind of stands as a testament to this mixing of faiths and this is from a man who brought brahmins near him and pundits near him to learn from them he

drank the water of the gunk he had a deep root god for hindu faith and custom and belief and and i think is aim was to find in this land of many religions where he was ruling as a muslim emperor to find a way in which people could go forward it wouldn't be secularism as we know it's not in the modern european sense but it was clearly driven by a secular ideal. i'm about to see something quite extraordinary but which at the same time is peculiarly india. where the hindu temple that was partially destroyed and turned into a mosque by oren say look at that like literally the column what's interesting here is that part of this mosque complex remains a place of worship for hindus and yeah the ultimately.

it's being kind of prepared in our prayers in the evening and it's in the face of. you cast your eye or are you see very very typical muslim arches and then you see what is really like the pillars of a hindu temple but in the middle of that is the kepler which is the direction of prayer so both face are represented both forms of worship are occurring side by side and this to me is historical resolution. to see other. anderson february march you'd wish for i recalled 100 people who were going to give it. a child like they could do harm except you know. you don't know marshall the. don't know. what i think good man and that i love no hero need to you know why isn't he is with me is upset but again i want to know their views on the mosque and hindus most

important to the cause which owns they've also destroyed to build a mosque just gan might be most it could be. iraq john moran got number limited on the cajon number kashima caution wish not. to be sure shasta can drop. in monday don't go toward europe not to cut. hum mondays by not measured by nicholas tejada. good choice now but i got the good the disk and watch funny. the chick get in. june and must. protect her. very very interesting you know he's saying whatever happened was not a good thing it was not a good thing that happened and he says for me it was a symbol of slavery because it was built by a barber who was who and saved us lickin our good beach macwhich of our lardner.

our new government can get under. the rug up we're not up 100 could not really clamp not do i know when we sell miners i.v. ahau. so i was really struck by the similarity between these 2 men are you fiction by the warm and i was left with a strange question because when they got talking about history when they got talking about temples destroyed what was to be rebuilt was to be left there were really reconcilable differences between them and yet there was the civility in the suspection and it left me feeling i thought what is this everything is that ability to get on really what counts or do people have to result differences down to their very being easy if that's even possible.

on the eve of india's independence day i'm returning to delhi. i'm starting the day at the job. a muslim college where celebrations already in full swing. think oh yes oh i didn't see now. do you want to wish me. good man of the a.t.f. i didn't mean that. they are not changing. lindsay if you. think.

there's no doubting the commitment of these muslim students i was impressed by the scaffold pad display of unity it was on this day 72 years ago that india gained independence from britain along with the events that led to partition. at that time it became clear that india's muslims. those who chose to remain would be as much part of this nation as the hindu's when i arrived in this country i expected to find a place dramatically different from the one i grew up in instead i was pleasantly surprised to find how intact indian life still is how integrated how assimilated and yet i cannot deny that i felt a sense of foreboding among india's 170000000 muslims a deep feeling of disenfranchisement this is a country in the grip of a historical reckoning the indian past with all its pain and complexity is being realistic it how it negotiates this passage will not merely affect india's most

limbs but the moral and spiritual health of the nation as a whole. it was time for me to return to my home in new york i left india feeling encouraged and hopeful for the future of the country i'm so proud to have grown up in and call my own. but in new york a nasty shock awaited me a letter from india's ministry of home affairs and what the threatening to do is to revoke my overseas indian citizenship which allows me to live and work in india the grounds that the saying that the grounds that they're using to revoke this is that apparently i've concealed the pakistani origin of my father. and it's a very worrying letter because if it goes through i may not be able to return to india and they've i meant i have $21.00 days to respond but i have barely 24 hours

to respond to this letter. i've recently written this article critical inner intermodal here in the b j p then attacked me wrongly calling me a muslim and a pakistani with no right to interfere with indian affairs with attacks such as this on critical journalists i'm as worried for my country as i am for the impact of this on myself and my family in india. my lawyer feels that there's something malicious in what the government has done they're accusing me of concealing the fact that my father was pakistani which is kind of absurd because i've written books and articles for over a decade about my father's pakistani origin and about the fact that i was always a strange from him and grew up with my mother in india i can't help but feel that the reason is this time magazine article more than 250 prominent writers have

petitioned the indian government on my behalf i was grateful and more than touched by their support the booker prize winning indian novelist kiran this i was one of them. i told you to dishonor my parents not to speak up talking about the india i grew up in i am afraid because i know all the minorities in india are very afraid. and then you have a country. that does not honor its minorities then it's time to be very afraid the press is under threat in india we have had many cases of books being banned in india and of writers being silenced but i think the situation is growing more acute we're talking of murder of silencing writers by murdering them by banning them books silencing the press and with you of course they came up with a technicality every new victim becomes

a symbol of this oppression there were plenty of people who would have loved to sign and were really far too scared to sign is so much fear even among indians here that there will be severe repercussions on their speaking up and that they will be targeted. one by one. with a heavy heart i have to surrender my overseas indian citizenship today. well i've come out one document less and this is a kind of weird goodbye to and feels very hard for me because this is a country i've grown up in i've lived in all my life and suddenly i don't really have the right to go there anymore and i basically feel bereft of my mother my grandmother my country and and the place where i grew up. the bridge appears just

past its so-called citizenship amendment bill for the 1st time in indian history it establishes a test of religion for becoming indian earlier on in this film i had asked myself are we witnessing a weakening of india secular character. the answer to my question seems frighteningly to be yes i'm reminded of something the veteran politician r. of muhammad can said about part of the in the name for india. indian tradition says this whole continent between the sea and the him earlier this is part of and all of those who live the children parter. the taste it's not a matter of the deep but snit believe does not matter the gender does not matter the place of residence does not but not a matter i who are children of i have a child of which i am i a child on a child of potter and if someone was to say to me i'm not what do i say to him if

someone is going to someone was. going to tell me that i'm not for a son of my father that let it go to head. we got some really heavy rain now making its way away from the river plate pushing across europe why that will not just land of the foss out the east brazil as we go through the next couple of days he joins up with a line of storms that we have just around northern parts of argentina pushing up into bolivia not very wet weather could cause some localized flooding over the next

24 to 48 hours or so it does not its way further north with that by the time we come to whiten stay bright skies come in behind women weather will see temperatures simply to service getting up to around 29 degrees celsius plenty of showers there across the amazon basin as well but it's bet's pushing all the way up into those southern parts of colombia was to head to the caribbean a lot of lovely sunshine this fine and by the way a few showers just around the east knowledge as we go through the next few days see how we have got so that easterly wind pushing the showers over towards the western side of the region so parts of panama costa rica maybe nicaragua could catch a few showers and they could use a few showers just around this to the north and south all further north and to north america because it's plenty of heavy rain now making its way across the deep south snow in the northern flank of that and i was all making its way steadily to the east.

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